How can PHP beginners ensure that their form submissions are properly encoded in UTF-8?

To ensure that form submissions are properly encoded in UTF-8, PHP beginners can set the character encoding to UTF-8 in both the HTML form and the PHP script that processes the form data. This can be done by adding the accept-charset="UTF-8" attribute to the form tag in the HTML and setting the default_charset directive to "UTF-8" in the php.ini file or using the header function in the PHP script. 

// Set the character encoding to UTF-8 in the HTML form
<form accept-charset="UTF-8">

// Set the character encoding to UTF-8 in the PHP script
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

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